Valentine's Day Idea! Bacon and Spinach Stuffed Mushrooms

Happy Sunday everyone! With Valentine's day coming up, I wanted to give you all a quick and easy way to impress your loved one! Stuffed mushrooms are always impressive, and in reality they are very easy to make, with so many possibilities for flavors. For this recipe, I used spinach and bacon to whip up this tasty side dish. Serve with steak and some good wine and you are set!

Ingredients:

1 package of white button mushrooms
4 strips of bacon, cooked and chopped
4 cups baby spinach
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbs olive oil
1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
2 tbs bread crumbs
salt and pepper

Start off by carefully removing the stems from your mushrooms. Take your time with this, trying to not break the edges of the mushroom, while getting the entire stem out so that you have room for your fillings.

Next, finely chop up your stems.

In a large skillet, cook your spinach until it is wilted.

Remove the spinach, pat off any extra moisture and loosely chop. In the same skillet, cook your bacon until crispy. When finished, finely chop up your bacon.Remove the excess bacon grease from your skillet. Add your olive oil and cook up your garlic and mushroom stems until soft.

In a bowl, mix together your spinach, bacon, garlic, stems, cheese and bread crumbs.

Carefully fill your mushroom caps with the filling. Don't pack the filling in too tightly, but add enough to fill the mushroom and overflow just a bit.

Cook in a pan for 20 minutes or until browned at 400 degrees.

These will be great along side a nice steak! Remember, you don't always have to make the most difficult recipe for it to be fancy and delicious. I hope you try these out and enjoy for Valentine's Day!!

Please note: You can easily modify these by leaving out the breadcrumbs or using turkey bacon. Enjoy!!